mobilize widespread, national adoption of consensus-based best practices for specific medication safety issues that continue to cause fatal and harmful errors in patients, despite repeated warnings in ISMP publications. Hospitals can focus their medication safety efforts over the next 2 years on these best practices, which are realistic and have been successfully adopted by numerous organizatio...

The Population Council confronts critical health and development issues—from stopping the spread of HIV to improving reproductive health and ensuring that young people lead full and productive lives. Through biomedical, social science, and public health research in 50 countries, we work with our partners to deliver solutions that lead to more effective policies, programs, and technologies that ...

We develop and analyze a simple financial equilibrium model with capital market imperfections. We allow agents to choose on which side of the market they participate. We also allow for the co-existence of bank loans and direct finance. Our findings suggest that financial development depends on both the initial level of aggregate wealth and its distribution among the agents in the economy. We al...

A scheme is presented in which a Pretty Good Democracy style acknowledgement code mechanism is incorporated into Prêt à Voter. The idea is to provide voters with an immediate, and usable, confirmation at the time of casting of the correct registration of their receipt on the Web Bulletin Board. As with PGD, the registration and revelation of the confirmation code is performed by a threshold set...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 2, 2013 (“Essays in Honor of W. Boyd Rayward: Part I,” edited by Alistair Black and Charles van den Heuvel), pp. 456–464. © 2014 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract In 1911, in support of Paul Otlet’s plan for a universal bibliography, Boleslas Iwinski, a Polish-born economist and labor organizer, estimated the total number of book titles that had...

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LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 781–793. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract This paper highlights the history of libraries in Belarus, including the library network development and its current structu...

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